Thursday, February 22, 7-9pm
Ching Conference Center, 2nd Floor, Eiben Hall, Chaminade University
FREE
With David Ulrich
Please join us in celebrating David Ulrich’s new book, Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography, published by Random House/Ten Speed Press. The book is to be released on February 13 and copies are available for purchase and signing at this event.
From the publisher: “Zen Camera is an unprecedented photography program that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone.
David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs, its insights into the nature of seeing, art, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful, meaningful, and uniquely your own.
You’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology—transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness, to see creatively, and to live authentically.”
In support of our local creative community, over half of the photographs in the book are by Hawai‘i-based photographers.
ZEN CAMERA is divided into six lessons with numerous tools and exercises to help readers realize the content of each lesson.
Lesson One: Observation Lesson Two: Awareness
Lesson Three: Identity Lesson Three: Practice
Lesson Five: Mastery Lesson Six: Presence
Praise for Zen Camera:
“The most important lesson I learned was in a photography class with David Ulrich, who taught me that I had something to say. It was life changing. I’ll never forget David’s generosity of spirit and how it transformed the course of my life.” — Photographer Lydia Panas
“Zen Camera gets real about what it takes to master the art of photography. In six compelling lessons, Ulrich guides us through a series of tasks to purify our seeing and allow our original self to emerge. The prize: To create authentic and meaningful work with resonating presence.” —Philippe L. Gross, Ph.D., The Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing